When thirteen-year-old Gilda Joyce accidentaly tells her entire class that she is going to San Francisco during summer break (she's not) she decides it is the perfect time to visit her distant cousin Lester Splinter and his daughter Juliet. She then wangles an invitation and heads off to San Francisco. When she gets there she dicovers that there is a ghost in the tower on the back of the old house. Juliet believes it is the ghost of her aunt who commited suicide several years ago. Gilda, who considers herself a psychic investigator, believes her and sets out to find out why the ghost is there and what made her commit suicide. I LOVE Gilda, who enjoyes wearing wigs and wacky disguises, always carries a copy of the Master Psychic's Handbook, and frequently askes sudden probing and personal questions. She also travels with a typewriter on which she writes stories, progress reports on her latest case, and letters to her dead father. Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator is a great book, and anyone who likes slightly creepy mysteries with funny, zany, main characters should read it.
